r/lovethissmug • • 25d ago

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope 😂 Wikipedia's language being unintentionally funny

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u/Kiwi8_Fruit6 25d ago

the chance of a chimpanzee writing Hamlet is low, but never zero

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u/Digit00l 25d ago

I don't know all the punctuation that appears in the script of Hamlet, so if we just assume full stops, commas, question marks, and exclamation marks, and assume we don't care about the text to be case sensitive, and don't require line breaks, a keyboard with the required 31 keys needed to type the script (26 letters, 4 punctuation, and a space bar) could achieve the script of Hamlet in a 1/31H where H stands for the required keystrokes to type out Hamlet

This number is so incredibly small that calling it astronomically small does it injustice, but it is greater than 0

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u/Digit00l 25d ago

In this case at least